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Friday, January 17, 2014

This aging Academy Award winning actress spends a great deal of her remaining fortune on the company of much much younger men. She pays them with gifts and cash and she gets them to act out some of her famous scenes. They guys are barely wearing anything and love scenes involve way more than kissing, but I'm happy for her. She always seemed so cranky though.

Blondie - I think her personality was the biggest negative but there were other factors. While actors like to pretend they can play anything the reality is that the public generally assigns them a persona. Her's was fairly cold and brittle, consequently she was hard to cast (compared to an "approachable" personality such as Sandra Bullock"). Her success was extraordinarily concentrated (B&C, Thomas Crown) in 1967/8 and a great run from 1974-1976 (Musketeer films, Chinatown, Network, Towering Inferno, Condor). Outside of that her taste in material appears to have been poor. Finally it is often said that Mommie Dearest was so "over the top" so as to destroy her credibility. It certainly was an artistic failure, to which her performance was a major contributor, but it should be remembered that she was 40 and her ingenue days were behind her anyways.

Too, she got "old" before the plastic surgery boon we see today, where you can turn 50 and look amazing. By the 70's it got better, but in those days, a typical on-screen couple involved a 40-ish man and a 20-ish woman. Older women were pushed out.

I really loved "Eyes of Laura Mars" - one of my favorite films. Great actress... that's a shame if she was mean.

I worked at a restaurant in downtown Chicago in the 90s when Faye's assistant came in to pick up her dinner. This assistant was a nervous wreck and kept saying "I'm here for Faye Dunaway's dinner". Well, turns out somewhere somehow someone called one place and went to the other because there was no such order there.

This girl panicked and started sweating! She kept saying "I have to be back now". Fortunately for her, the chef was a really decent guy who started asking questions about who she spoke with and the type of food. He said "I think I know the restaurant. Let me make a call". Meanwhile this girl was shaking hard and very red in the face. A few minutes later he came back and told her the name and address of the restaurant which was blocks away. This girl mumbled thanks and ran out. We wondered how such a mixup could happen but the way this poor girl was about to fall apart at the seams really stuck with us.

I was happy that day, because I had a legit reason to say, "No moar wire hangers," instead of the million other times I say it, and there's no context. Next to "What's in the boxxxx?" its my all time favorite movie quote.

Wowee great story. I love hearing tales of workers' experiences working for the famous.

A friend is a production assistant for Bravo - sounds like such a nightmare job ... the pay is not good, the hours are terrible, and the cast on the shows she is assigned to are insufferable. Still, it's all good experience - which is how she looks at it too.

Many years ago, a friend of mine was working in an LA record store (before the internet). Many celebs would come in there - one thing they wouldn't send their assistants to do is pick out their music. Anyway, Faye Dunaway came in and purchased some music, and paid by check. The cashier had to call in for an authorization number, and Faye got VERY upset at having to wait. The cashier apologized, but added, "It will only take 15 seconds to get the authorization, ma'am." Faye replied, shouting throughout the store, "I.....HAVEN'T.....GOT....15....SECONDS!!!" I don't remember whether or not she ended up waiting for that authorization or not, but all the employees wanted to get t-shirts made up with that quote.

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